Question

Rewrite the question in the passive voice:
This room looks different. Have you painted it?
(a)Have you painted the room?
(b)Did you paint the room?
(c)Has the room been painted by you?
(d)Was this room painted by you?

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence and try to tell it to a third person in your head. You will get a fair idea of how the answer in passive voice should be. Now go through the options and look for the sentence which you framed in your head or the sentence closest to it. Keep in mind to form a grammatically sound sentence.

Complete answer: There are two types of voice- Active voice is a grammatical voice in which the subject acts, whereas Passive voice is a grammatical voice in which the subject receives the action of the verb. The object is more emphasized in the passive voice.
Let’s look at the rules that we need to follow while changing an active voice to passive voice-
(i)The position of the subject and object are interchanged.
(ii)We use a ‘by’ with the subject to indicate who acted.
(iii)We use the corresponding tense form with the past participle form of the verb.
In the given question- We can conclude that the correct answer is; Has the room been painted by you?
Here, we have used ‘has’ to replace ‘it’, which is used for indicating the room.
Now, let’s examine the given options-
Option a- ‘Have you painted the room?’ is an incorrect option because there is no change in its voice.
Option b- ‘Did you paint the room?’ is an incorrect option because the given sentence is in the active voice.
Option c- ‘Has the room been painted by you?’ is the correct option because we can see a change in the position of the subject and the object.
Option d- ‘Was this room painted by you?’ is an incorrect option because the sentence is given in the past form.
The correct answer is Option ‘c’.

Note: Keep in mind, we always use the third form or the past participle form in the passive voice. Also, it is important to use the appropriate corresponding tense forms.